Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and northeastern North America; circumboreal.
Habitat: Meadows, forest openings, and open slopes from middle elevations to the subalpine.
Flowers: June-September
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial, Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, butterflies, flies, apomixis?
Biennial or perennial, 0.5-8 dm. tall, often covered with stiff, blunt hairs.
Basal leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, the cauline ones ample to strongly reduced, lance-ovate to linear-oblong;
Heads usually several on somewhat glandular, curved peduncles; involucral bracts tapered and pointed; rays pistillate, numerous, erect, inconspicuous, white, up to 4 mm. long and 0.4 mm. wide; inner pistillate flowers rayless; pappus surpassing the disk flowers.
Publication: Sp. Pl. 2: 863. 1753.
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var. kamtschaticus – Kamchatka bitter fleabane
Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the northern Great Plains, Great Lakes region, and northeastern North America; circumboreal.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Erigeron acris in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WA Flora Checklist: Erigeron acris checklist entry.
OregonFlora: Erigeron acris information.
E-Flora BC: Erigeron acris atlas page.
CalPhotos: Erigeron acris photos.
USDA Plants: Erigeron acris information.
